Weedless panfish

Don

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As you’ve all witnessed I’ve studied, purchased and practiced hooking and lawn casting every combination of plastics for bass. What if I wanted to miniature those same setups for bluegill and trout to keep it weedless for them as well would bluegill have an aggressive enough bite to collapse a Texas rig and hook themselves?
You may have noticed my drive to all weedless wether it is fly, spinning or baitcaster. I like to fish so many of the weedy areas and also the attendant wildlife common to those areas.
 

HenryDavid

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Once the water temps warm up you can catch the gills on top water poppers with your fly rod. This can happen early May depending upon the weather.
 

A-5

Moderator
Yup. We would fish and have a popper on a fly rod hanging of the boat and get a bonus gill on top
 
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Don

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You folks rock with accommodating my post with good sound wisdom. There is nothing like may gills on a fly rod.
 

Don

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My freezer is empty and here I sit in CA on this beautiful day. Hopefully it will be nice enough to fish when I get home.
 

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truecrimson

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I posted the link about the California trout slam. Pack them in dry ice and ship them to the wife.

I used to work with a guy, another snot sucker like myself. Cory. He was from outside of Pittsburgh somewhere and came out here because the worst facilities pay better. In a previous life he had been an aircraft mechanic (yep, he downgraded his career). He had an airline credit card that got frequent flier miles for every purchase he made. So Cory would pay his mortgage with it. He had so many miles that he could fly anywhere whenever he wanted. So his big thing was once a year he took a couple of weeks, or maybe even a month and flew up to some big island off Alaska. There he hunted everything, and did some fishing too. Here is why I thought of this story right now. He would pack all the meat and fish in dry ice and ship it back to his family in PA. They ate almost exclusively wild game, and gave plenty away. They would just buy some beef now and then. Sort of like Joe Rogan does, but way before Rogan did it.

You could have been doing that in your travels. Catching fish and shipping them home in dry ice. OR releasing them if you didn't want to go to all that trouble.

More importantly, Cory added the term "finless brown" to my vocabulary. As in "I have to go release a finless brown." :poop:

Please don't ask me to confirm any of this. It's all true I swear ;)

Even if you saw it yourself you wouldn't believe it
But I wouldn't trust a person like me if I were you
Sure, I wasn't there, I swear I have an alibi
I heard it from a man who knows a fella who says it's true.
 

truecrimson

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Now see, if you going to Palmyra PA you could schedule a trip to Memorial with me as a "business meeting" ;)
 
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